BONJOUR, HI

To whom it may concern,

This letter of intent is to express my deepest interest in the program of

Computation Arts (BFA) – Specialization oered at Concordia University.

As someone with a passion for both art and technology, this program would provide

me with the ideal platform to explore & developp my creative interests.

As I pull out the lugage acquired along my journey into the overhead of this plane, I hope

to travel through this adventure. Starting from my parents, they are a crucial part of who I

am now. Being at the two extremes of the spectrum in terms of personality and discipline.

They have greatly inﬂuenced my methodology and shaped my vision of what was around

as I learn to navigate.

“

In the stands, there she is, my mother.

” As a former ice skater, she was present at all my

training sessions, 5 times a week. Pushing me to go further in my discipline.

A pressure to strive. I took on this belief as my own. As I decided to leave the comfort

of my mother’s nest into the unknown abyss of my father’s side. I discovered this new way

of total freedom, a dierent way of education.

Having experienced these two extremes, I sought myself through all of this. I conformed

to this idea of ﬁnding the center of this axis. Also allowing me to pivot in my own way from

one point to the other. This leads me to ﬁnd this peace into the creative world.

Comes, my desire to be multidisciplinary but always on a trajectory towards creation.

Understanding that this is a privilege to be able to research, to develop ideas and

concepts: The more unknown it is, the more curious I am, the more I want to learn and

the more I wish to understand. The ﬁeld of creative technology fascinates me and it is

also towards this sector that I wish to pursue. I wish to develop conceptual and technical

skills in the realm of the new media arts.

My aspiration is to constantly work on meaningful projects that will both help me grow

and challenge myself. In the past few years, being on the job market has allowed me to

gain professional experience in the advertising agencies. Althought, pursuing my practice

and developping my own meaningful creation is my moto. I believe in shaping myself

through what I do and the way I do it. In the pursue of a personal project, I wish to work

on the realization of an ephemeral interactive installation resulting from personal and

external learning. My skills is more speciﬁc to the design world, but knowing this would

be a tool use as base to further skills.

My knowledge and skills lacks in the electronics & the programming. Nonetheless, I am

extremely eager to learn. I wish to delvelop further techniques in tangible media and

physical computing projects using electronics, softwares and programming such as

Arduino, processing or any resources considered relevant to proactively pursue in the

venture.

The chance of exploring and to furthermore the practice in the Faculty of Design and

Computation Arts is a chance I wish can be considered. This program will equip me with

the necessary knowledge, skills, and opportunities to seek a path in this rapidly evolving

ﬁeld of new media arts and design.

Thank you for your consideration of my application. I look forward to the opportunity

to further discuss my qualiﬁcations and interests with you.

Kindly, I invite you to visit my portfolio for further details.

1 - BETA

Slow moving ﬁsh with the bright contrast of the outside.

The idea was to create the sentiment of steadyness

and movement in a representation to the individual.

In this era of bright, colorful & playful personality, I

wanted to showcase the contrast. The representation

as I perceive in the bright solitude of the Beta ﬁsh,

drifting in the container while displaying a colorful shell.

Eventually, I wish to make this piece more interactive

with the individuals.

Please ﬁnd the video (1-BETA)

of these slow dancing ﬁsh in slideroom.

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TYPE OF PROJECT :

Generative animation & design

MEDIUM :

Touchdesigner generative design & Stock video.

Disclaimer:

I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this stock video. All

rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended. The

purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a

If I ask you to close your eyes and I tell you: “a bird”, the image that will come to your

mind will certainly be the image of a cardinal bird or a sparrow (the little brown bird that

can be found everywhere in Montreal). These pretty birds.

However, it is interesting to know that the ﬁrst image that comes to mind will not be an

owl or a chicken - also in the family of birds. Why is that so? Does the acquisition of

concepts limit us to seeing only what is that which is initially internalized and predisposed

to us during our life?

Do concepts limit us in the perception of reality?

Tropes allow us to get out of this reality and to see words and terms in a dierent and

terms from another angle. They allow us to internalize these words under another

image and another sensation. It is to seek to divert the meaning of an initial word by a

completely dierent story. They are thus the “

fruit

” of mental associations resulting from

changes in the initial meaning of the word.

In the example just above, in italics, the word fruit has been put in quotation marks, in

order to refer to the meaning of the outcome and not to the fruit as consumed. How

could we introduce the dierent tropical expressions into visuals using our own language

as data?

This is the project I have in mind. To have the possibility to put in visual a trope

or the literal image of a word in a precise context. This project challenges me without

precedent and is based on an inspiration and a way of being that is sometimes

problematic for me. It is not always easy to understand these linguistic subtleties. All

understandings also depend on our baggage. In my case, I am aware that I have diculty

understanding a trope and I am more inclined to visualize it literally instead of using its

word in its ﬁgurative use. And if it were possible to literally visualize physically these

tropes that surround us and get as close as possible to these expressions that we use

nonchalantly? Thus, in order to help us understand the world around us.

By exploring the words of the language and the interaction of the users, I believe that it

would be possible to get them to integrate and visualize the tropes (which can be literal

or ﬁgurative). And if we heard: “You eat like a pig” it might be interesting to literally see a

scene where one is in the form of a pig surrounded by pigs eating our meal(this is only

an example). I wish to explore further this idea and develop this as an interactive piece.

The trope can be compared to an ornament which visually/imaginatively/phonically

serves to embellish.

2 - THROPES. thoughts, processes and intentions

2 - THROPES. moodboard

2 - THROPES. outside project

Inspired by the previous premisses, I screenprinted

a design I made from the inspiration of an ornaments

that represent a trope. The message within this design

wish to project the idea that not all ornaments mean to

embellish.

“A trope, a ﬁgure of speech or rhetorical to embellish a text

or to make it more text or to make it more lively and which

consists in using a word or an expression expression in a

sense diverted from its proper its proper meaning.”

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TYPE OF PROJECT :

Serigraphy, screens printing & build of a dark room

MEDIUM :

Adobe Illustration & screen printing technique

3 - ALONG THE WAY

Along the ways – explore dierent techniques of

animations. Meltpot of 3d texture and collage of short

clips.

Please ﬁnd the video (3-ALONG_THE_WAY)

of this animation in Slide room.

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TYPE OF PROJECT :

Video animation

MEDIUM :

After Eects & Red Giant plugins

4 - THE EQUATION OF SANITY

Dedicated to mathematicians who have fallen

into madness.

This project is a combination of equation, sounds and

images in the honor of mathematicians who have

dedicated their lives to the understanding of formulas.

This website is a production intended to be interactive

with the user to engage. A representation of the great

mathematicians bordering on madness.

I invite you to visite this Github link:

https://mslineon.github.io/

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TYPE OF PROJECTS :

Website design & conceptual

LANGUAGES :

HTML, CSS & Javascript

Disclaimer:

This piece is a mixture and combination of CSS & Javascript

programming found on the net. Some parameters have been changed

to support the aesthetics of the site. Please, ﬁnd in the ﬁle the codes

that have been used. In no case, I intend to make these codes my

own and utilize them in its fair use. Please note that the project is not

fully completed. Hence, you will ﬁnd some pages that are displaying

some issue.

4 - NEW EMOJIS

For this project, I wanted to project my emotions

and experiment the touchdesigner software. Emojis

are a way of expressing in this world of digital

communication. Therefore, I projected these types of

communication and mapped on a lamp these more

playful communication.

Please ﬁnd the video (4-NEW_EMOJIS)

of the projection mapping slideroom.

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TYPE OF PROJECT :

Projection Mapping

MEDIUM :

Touchdesigner & Youtube video of emojis.

Disclaimer:

I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this stock video. All

rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended. The

purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a

commercial nature or is for nonproﬁt educational purposes.

🙃

please see the video

🙃

🙃🙃

please see the video

🙃

please see the video

🙃

please see the video

🙃

please see the video

🙂

🙂 🙂

please see the video

6 - THE GOLDEN CAGE

Pandemy invited itself into our life. As we navigate

to adapt to this new reality. In repercussion to this

instance, it will have been required to work from home

From this thought, I had the idea to create an open

space inside the house that gave a semblance of

getting out and entering back into the house. This is

what I now call my gilded cage.

Since I didn’t have the welding skills to build a metal

box, I turned to a welding artist for the execution part.

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TYPE OF PROJECT :

Collaboration & Conception

MEDIUM :

Sketching

7 - DESIGN SERIES

This series is a collection of design collected

throughout the years that was more directed toward

conceptual and linking idea to images.

For this part, I wish to not further go into details and

description as I wish to let you imagine what you aim to

see.

Please ﬁnd the full design of this series in slideroom.

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TYPE OF PROJECT :

Design & Conception

MEDIUM :

Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator

INVOLVEMENTS

As a ﬁrm believer in the interaction of the community as a whole and in all of its forms, I wish to present more

of my involvement in the creative sphere through various events in Quebec. I am very passionnate about

participating in the creation of communities experience and I love involving myself in the planiﬁcation of events

that touches me.

The next two pages are less personal projects, but more collaboration and are as important in my eye.

They representant my involvments in the artists community that I wish to share with you. I believe in a way that

they are projects that are important for the culture in Québec as they showcase the importance

of arts, technology & self-expression.

INVOLVEMENTS - MUSICMOTION

MusicMotion is a non-proﬁt organization that contributes

to the advancement of music and interactive arts

through the production of targeted events and the

development of an international community.

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TYPE OF EVENTS :

Hackathon events

INVOLVEMENT :

Participation in the organization of the Hackathon

WEBSITE LINKS :

MusicMotion Hacklab 2019

MusicMotion Hacklab 2021

INVOLVEMENTS - ILLUSION FESTIVAL

The Illusion Festival acts as a catalyst for the Quebec

creative community. It is the combination of dierent

musical, performative, artistic and technological

mediums that allows all to act as a vector of wonder for

the child in all of us.

The Illusion festival is an electronic music and visual

arts festival cumulating 3 editions since 2017. It brings

together each year more than a hundred artists of

all kinds; DJs, digital arts collectives, live artists, etc.

Combining benevolence and social involvement

through play and culture, the festival is based on values

of sharing and development through the arts.

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TYPE OF EVENTS :

Musical performance, Artistic installation.

INVOLVEMENT :

Management of the artists & people involve in the festival.

Communication platform

LINKS:

https://www.festivalillusion.com/

Facebook

TESTING THE WATER - EXPERIMENTATION

As you will .

Thank you!